1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,500 Two things are changing. And you know, people people, you 2 00:00:03,500 --> 00:00:06,800 can read books on digital and digital formats and things like 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:08,400 that. I still prefer to read a book 4 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:12,300 out of a actual page off of an actual page then on something 5 00:00:12,300 --> 00:00:16,300 digital but I know that it's still the word of God whether 6 00:00:16,300 --> 00:00:18,700 it's on your phone or whether it's in the pages of a book. 7 00:00:18,700 --> 00:00:20,600 But there's just something special about being able to 8 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,500 carry the word of God With Us and some something of a 9 00:00:23,508 --> 00:00:26,000 testimony of that as well, right? 10 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,000 When people see you walk out your front door in the morning 11 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:29,500 carrying rival. There's not really much of a 12 00:00:29,500 --> 00:00:31,400 question Where you're going right? 13 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:32,900 They don't think. Oh, I'll bet he said it down to 14 00:00:32,900 --> 00:00:34,500 the bar for the afternoon, right? 15 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:36,700 They say he's all he's going to church, right? 16 00:00:36,700 --> 00:00:38,500 Same thing. When you dress up and walk out 17 00:00:38,500 --> 00:00:41,300 the front door, you know, I've said this many times, I hope the 18 00:00:41,300 --> 00:00:44,900 neighbors aren't listening, but if they ever wanted to Rob us, 19 00:00:44,900 --> 00:00:47,200 they would know exactly the time to do it because we walk out the 20 00:00:47,208 --> 00:00:48,800 door. At the same time, every Sunday 21 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,300 morning, every Sunday night, every Wednesday night, if they 22 00:00:51,300 --> 00:00:53,400 wanted to Rob us, they sure would know how to do it. 23 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:58,200 So, but it's a testimony, it's a testimony and so I love to see 24 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:03,000 the Bible's here. And Acts chapter 16, by the way, 25 00:01:03,700 --> 00:01:06,100 when I started getting all these alerts and messages from 26 00:01:06,100 --> 00:01:10,700 everybody about about the Facebook being hacked and all 27 00:01:10,700 --> 00:01:12,900 the stuff that was that was going on and there and 28 00:01:12,900 --> 00:01:16,800 everything else I was in the middle of working on my message 29 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:20,000 here and I ended up taking two, three, four hours, trying to 30 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,700 deal with this whole situation and trying to get it resolved 31 00:01:22,700 --> 00:01:25,300 and everything else. And I think it's just the devil 32 00:01:25,300 --> 00:01:29,100 trying to get the way. Storm going on somewhere. 33 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:35,900 Good but except sit maybe see what I mean. 34 00:01:36,300 --> 00:01:39,000 The got the devil doesn't want you to hear this message this 35 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:39,700 morning. I think. 36 00:01:39,700 --> 00:01:44,000 But Acts chapter 16 is a pretty familiar story to us especially 37 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:45,700 as we get near the end of the chapter. 38 00:01:45,900 --> 00:01:47,900 But I want to, I want to start back a little bit farther than 39 00:01:47,900 --> 00:01:50,200 maybe we normally would to kind of give you a little bit of a 40 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,800 background in to this passage course it. 41 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,200 We're talking about Paul here, Paul and Silas. 42 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,600 But it says in verse number 16 and it came to pass, as we went 43 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,700 to prayer, a certain damsel possesses Zest with a spirit of 44 00:02:01,700 --> 00:02:05,500 divination met us, which brought her master's much gain by 45 00:02:05,500 --> 00:02:09,000 soothsaying. The same followed, Paul and us 46 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,500 in Christ saying, these men are the Servants of the most high, 47 00:02:11,500 --> 00:02:13,800 God would show unto us, the way of Salvation. 48 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:18,200 And this did, she many days but Paul being grieved turned and 49 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:20,800 said, to the spirit, I command thee, in the name of Jesus 50 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:24,100 Christ to come out of her and he came out the same hour, by the 51 00:02:24,100 --> 00:02:29,000 way, these soothsayers, these fortune-tellers. 52 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,000 And these, you know, people who do Magic and everything else. 53 00:02:32,100 --> 00:02:34,900 They're not you know they don't have some special powers other 54 00:02:34,900 --> 00:02:37,700 than the powers that are given to them by Satan and I do 55 00:02:37,700 --> 00:02:39,800 believe that some of them do have powers. 56 00:02:40,500 --> 00:02:43,400 I do believe that some of them can tell fortunes and some of 57 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,900 them can do those things but doing it in the power of Satan. 58 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,500 And so that ought to be a warning to any of us, that would 59 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:51,400 even think about getting involved in all of these 60 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,600 different these things. And you know, I hear people 61 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:58,000 talking about their what their sign, what is the sign, the 62 00:02:58,008 --> 00:03:00,600 astrological sign or something like that astrology. 63 00:03:00,700 --> 00:03:03,100 Angie is all part of that whole Mystic. 64 00:03:03,100 --> 00:03:07,000 You know, demonic religion, if you will. 65 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,600 And all it's all done through the power of Satan. 66 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,300 And it's and, and this passage proves that here's this woman 67 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:16,400 who had the who had the spirit of divination. 68 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,500 She was able to tell the future, she was able to give people 69 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:21,200 their fortunes and she's following them around, 70 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,400 essentially mocking them. These guys are giving you the 71 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:26,000 way of Salvation, huh? And Paul finally turned around 72 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,400 and cast the spirit out of her eyes. 73 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:34,300 A demonic Spirit, but verse R19 and one her master's saw that 74 00:03:34,300 --> 00:03:36,300 the hope of their gains was gone. 75 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,400 They caught Paul and Silas and Drew them into the marketplace 76 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:43,100 unto the rulers and brought them to the magistrate saying, these 77 00:03:43,100 --> 00:03:47,300 men being Jews, do exceedingly trouble, our city and teach 78 00:03:47,300 --> 00:03:50,500 Customs, which are not lawful for us to receive neither to 79 00:03:50,500 --> 00:03:54,200 observe, being Romans, and the multitude rose up together 80 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:57,600 against them and the magistrates rent off their clothes and 81 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,900 commanded to beat them. When they had laid many, Types 82 00:04:00,900 --> 00:04:03,800 upon them, they cast them into prison charging, the Jailer to 83 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,800 keep them safely who having received such a charge thrust 84 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,300 them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the 85 00:04:11,300 --> 00:04:12,700 stocks. Now, let me give you a little 86 00:04:12,700 --> 00:04:15,700 bit of background into this. They were so mad at Paul and 87 00:04:15,700 --> 00:04:18,700 Silas for what they had done in casting out this demon. 88 00:04:18,700 --> 00:04:21,399 I these people obviously were pretty well known in the city. 89 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:23,900 They probably had plenty of money that they got from this, 90 00:04:23,900 --> 00:04:27,200 that they made off of this girl. And now they're there. 91 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,900 Their livelihood has gotten their business is gone because 92 00:04:29,900 --> 00:04:32,600 now this girl Have the ability to tell fortunes anymore, 93 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,100 doesn't have the ability to predict the future anymore. 94 00:04:35,300 --> 00:04:37,500 There was so mad. Not only did they condemn them 95 00:04:37,500 --> 00:04:41,800 to be whipped, they rip their clothes off to whip them and 96 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,400 they beat them. And then they said you put these 97 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:48,000 guys in the jail and you mr. Jailer, you better, make sure 98 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,900 they don't get out. Now, we're not talking about, I 99 00:04:50,907 --> 00:04:54,000 mean, I know our prisons in America are not nice, but 100 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,800 compared to the prison's back, then you might as well be 101 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,700 staying in the Hilton. These were not and it's so by 102 00:04:59,700 --> 00:05:01,800 them being cast. Into the inner part of the 103 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:03,700 prison more likely. It was like a dungeon. 104 00:05:03,700 --> 00:05:06,500 There would have been no light. It would have been Mucky and 105 00:05:06,500 --> 00:05:10,300 nasty and probably, you know, rats running around and who 106 00:05:10,300 --> 00:05:13,500 knows what other kind of Filth in the inside of that prison and 107 00:05:13,500 --> 00:05:16,300 to make sure that they definitely couldn't get out. 108 00:05:16,300 --> 00:05:19,700 They put their feet in stocks, which means after they had been 109 00:05:19,700 --> 00:05:22,000 whipped and who knows what their backs looked like that, that 110 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,900 point they're sitting on the ground more than likely with 111 00:05:24,900 --> 00:05:27,000 their backs and leaned up against the wall. 112 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:32,100 In the middle of this prison, not a great situation if you're 113 00:05:32,100 --> 00:05:34,700 Paul or Silas but they were going to make sure that they 114 00:05:34,700 --> 00:05:36,500 didn't get out. But the Bible says verse number 115 00:05:36,500 --> 00:05:41,000 25. And at midnight Paul and Silas 116 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,900 prayed and sang, Praises unto God, and the prisoners heard 117 00:05:45,900 --> 00:05:47,700 them. And suddenly, there was a great 118 00:05:47,700 --> 00:05:49,500 earthquake. So that the foundations of the 119 00:05:49,500 --> 00:05:52,400 prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors 120 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,800 were opened and everyone's bands were loosed, and The Keeper of 121 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,600 the prison awaking out of his sleep and seeing the prison 122 00:05:58,900 --> 00:06:03,400 doors open Drew out his sword and would have killed himself. 123 00:06:03,500 --> 00:06:05,500 Supposing that the prisoners had been fled. 124 00:06:05,700 --> 00:06:08,700 By the way, if he was charged with keeping this prisoners and 125 00:06:08,700 --> 00:06:12,000 one of those prisoners, even one of those prisoners escaped, the 126 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,300 penalty was death. And so, rather than going 127 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:16,700 through all of that public humiliation and the public 128 00:06:16,700 --> 00:06:19,000 hanging or however, he was going to be executed. 129 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,500 He decided he was just going to end it right there for himself, 130 00:06:21,500 --> 00:06:26,300 because all of these prisoners are gone verse 28, excuse me, 131 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:31,000 but Paul cried with a loud voice saying, do thyself, no harm for 132 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,500 we are all here, then he called for a light and sprang in and 133 00:06:34,500 --> 00:06:37,800 came, trembling and fell down before Paul and Silas and 134 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:40,300 brought. Them out and said, sirs, what 135 00:06:40,300 --> 00:06:44,000 must I do to be saved and they said believe on the Lord, Jesus 136 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,100 Christ. And thou shalt be saved and thy 137 00:06:47,100 --> 00:06:49,900 house. And I started thinking this week 138 00:06:49,900 --> 00:06:51,900 about what Paul must have saying, they're in that 139 00:06:51,900 --> 00:06:57,200 jailhouse to have caused that Jailer to want to know the same 140 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:01,400 savior that they knew. What must they have said in 141 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,300 their prayer? Because he didn't get saved, 142 00:07:04,300 --> 00:07:07,300 because he was grateful for what they did in getting the 143 00:07:07,300 --> 00:07:09,500 prisoners. Now, I'm sure that helped he was 144 00:07:09,500 --> 00:07:12,300 glad that he didn't have to take his life, but he didn't fall 145 00:07:12,300 --> 00:07:15,000 down on his knees and say, oh, you're such a wonderful nice 146 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,100 guy. You saved the prisoners. 147 00:07:16,100 --> 00:07:17,700 What do I have to do to be saved? 148 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,300 No, he got saved because of the witness in the testimony of Paul 149 00:07:21,300 --> 00:07:24,100 and Silas before the earthquake. Could it be? 150 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:27,300 I started thinking about this, could it be that the Lord 151 00:07:27,300 --> 00:07:31,400 allowed Paul and Silas to go? Through all of that, so that one 152 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,400 Soul could be saved. I think it's very possible. 153 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,500 That's exactly what it was think about everything that they went 154 00:07:38,500 --> 00:07:40,300 through, they were whipped they were beaten, they were putting 155 00:07:40,300 --> 00:07:41,900 this prison, they were putting stocks. 156 00:07:41,900 --> 00:07:43,800 Sure. Paul had times when groups of 157 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:47,200 people accepted Jesus Christ, but most of the time Paul LED 158 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,300 people to Christ one or two at a time. 159 00:07:50,300 --> 00:07:52,000 Look at, look at Philip the Evangelist. 160 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:55,300 He was sent out into the middle of the desert because there was 161 00:07:55,300 --> 00:07:57,900 one Ethiopian eunuch who needed to know Jesus Christ as his 162 00:07:57,900 --> 00:08:02,200 savior He suffered, Paul suffered, all the hurt, all the 163 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:04,800 heartache, the imprisonment he was willing to do it for only 164 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,600 just a few people to accept Jesus Christ, it was worth it to 165 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,300 him. And let me say this, we've been 166 00:08:11,300 --> 00:08:13,400 laboring in this Vineyard for a while now. 167 00:08:14,700 --> 00:08:17,600 And we've put a lot of time and effort into trying to reach the 168 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,200 souls in this area and we've been able to see several of them 169 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:23,400 get saved, and we're thankful for that, but it would be great 170 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:24,900 to see multitudes, you get saved. 171 00:08:24,900 --> 00:08:27,700 Absolutely, it would be great to see something like, Pentecost, 172 00:08:27,700 --> 00:08:31,300 where 3,000 people get saved at one time, or just after that 173 00:08:31,300 --> 00:08:35,500 were 5,000, people got saved. But I want you to know this, all 174 00:08:35,500 --> 00:08:38,700 of the effort that we put in when we were still at the hotel 175 00:08:38,700 --> 00:08:41,799 and many of you were not there when we were at the hotel but we 176 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:44,400 were there for two and a half years and we moved over into 177 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:46,600 this building. We've been here for three and a 178 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:51,700 half going on for years. And all of the effort of putting 179 00:08:51,700 --> 00:08:54,900 the the time and the money and everything into this building, 180 00:08:54,900 --> 00:08:57,600 to get it, what it is and all the effort that's going to come, 181 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:00,200 when we end up in another place, wherever that happens to be, 182 00:09:00,300 --> 00:09:02,800 it's worth it. All if one Soul comes to know 183 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:07,600 Jesus Christ as their savior, I wear a life-saving station or at 184 00:09:07,608 --> 00:09:10,200 least we should be. This is a lighthouse. 185 00:09:10,700 --> 00:09:13,500 Obviously, we come to church because we need it for 186 00:09:13,500 --> 00:09:16,200 ourselves, we need the growth. We need to be challenged 187 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:18,300 spiritually. We need all of those things, and 188 00:09:18,300 --> 00:09:21,300 that's a huge part of what church is about edification and 189 00:09:21,300 --> 00:09:23,700 all of those things. I'm not saying that that's not a 190 00:09:23,708 --> 00:09:28,300 part of it, but we, as the church, when we leave, this 191 00:09:28,300 --> 00:09:32,800 building are still the church. This is not the church. 192 00:09:32,900 --> 00:09:34,800 This is where the church is housed. 193 00:09:34,900 --> 00:09:39,000 We are the church, and when we leave this place, our job is to 194 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,800 go out and be Lifesavers. Our job is to go out and bring 195 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:47,600 people into the life-saving station and even if one person 196 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:50,500 gets saved all the effort all the time, all of the 197 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,800 embarrassment, whatever you want to say, is all worth it. 198 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,900 If just, one Soul comes to know Jesus Christ as their savior, 199 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,000 I've only just a few come to know, Jesus Christ, it'll be 200 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,200 worth it all. We all have that responsibility 201 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,600 to win, souls to Jesus Christ. I said this many times before, 202 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:08,600 but if the whole point of us, being saved, was for God, to 203 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:10,600 take us to heaven. The moment, we accept him as our 204 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:12,500 savior, then he would have done that at the moment, we got 205 00:10:12,500 --> 00:10:15,100 saved. He has a job for us to fulfill 206 00:10:15,100 --> 00:10:17,500 on this Earth. He has a commission that he's 207 00:10:17,500 --> 00:10:21,300 given to each one of us as part of the church and that is to go 208 00:10:21,300 --> 00:10:25,200 and tell them that they need. Jesus Christ as their savior, we 209 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:27,500 want to be as effective for crisis, we can be while We're 210 00:10:27,500 --> 00:10:31,500 here on this Earth. As a church as families as 211 00:10:31,500 --> 00:10:32,700 individuals. I hope you. 212 00:10:32,700 --> 00:10:35,600 I hope that's the, the mindset that you have. 213 00:10:36,700 --> 00:10:38,500 But there are a couple things that we need to realize that 214 00:10:38,500 --> 00:10:42,300 will help us be more effective. And if the title of the message 215 00:10:42,300 --> 00:10:46,100 is simply this. If for only just a few We need 216 00:10:46,100 --> 00:10:48,400 to do the things that are necessary to be effective for 217 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:53,300 the cause of Jesus Christ. If for only just a few, let's 218 00:10:53,300 --> 00:10:54,500 pray. And we'll look at a few things 219 00:10:54,500 --> 00:10:55,700 here. This morning, Father, we love 220 00:10:55,700 --> 00:10:57,500 you and we thank you so much for your goodness to us. 221 00:10:58,300 --> 00:11:00,700 Thank you for the fact that we can be here this morning and 222 00:11:00,700 --> 00:11:02,400 that we can look at these things in your word. 223 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,500 I pray that it would be a motivation and a challenge to us 224 00:11:05,700 --> 00:11:09,300 to do everything we can to win the souls around us. 225 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:15,300 God, they're in your hands. But the responsibility is ours. 226 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,100 We must tell them. We must go. 227 00:11:18,700 --> 00:11:22,500 I probably should help us to not fail in that responsibility and 228 00:11:22,500 --> 00:11:26,400 God made a message this morning challenge us to do everything. 229 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,900 We can to win souls for Jesus Christ with the time that we 230 00:11:28,900 --> 00:11:31,300 have left. Well, thank you for what you do 231 00:11:31,300 --> 00:11:32,800 in Jesus name. Amen. 232 00:11:34,100 --> 00:11:36,600 The first thing that that we must understand. 233 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,600 If we're going to be more effective at reaching Souls, 234 00:11:39,900 --> 00:11:42,600 that we need to get a picture of how bad he'll really is. 235 00:11:43,700 --> 00:11:47,300 I think. The same way that we view 236 00:11:47,300 --> 00:11:49,800 Heaven. A lot of times we don't we don't 237 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:51,700 really have a true view of what heaven is going to be. 238 00:11:51,700 --> 00:11:55,200 Like we don't have a true view of what God is like and what his 239 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,000 Holiness really is. We don't we don't have that true 240 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:02,000 picture and I think we fail to give God the glory in so many 241 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:03,900 ways. And we fail to understand the 242 00:12:03,900 --> 00:12:07,200 the Majesty of God in so many ways because we are finite. 243 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:09,300 And because we do have a small view of what heaven is. 244 00:12:09,500 --> 00:12:11,400 I think our view of Heaven should be bigger. 245 00:12:11,500 --> 00:12:14,200 Our view of God should be greater, but I think we do the 246 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:15,500 same thing when it comes to hell. 247 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,300 Yeah, hell is a horrible place. You don't want to go there. 248 00:12:19,100 --> 00:12:22,900 If everything that the Bible says about hell is true and I 249 00:12:22,900 --> 00:12:25,900 believe it is. Why would we not believe that? 250 00:12:25,900 --> 00:12:28,400 But if the Bible, if everything the Bible says about hell is 251 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,800 true, hell is a horrible horrible place. 252 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:35,300 The Bible says there's weeping and gnashing of teeth, there's a 253 00:12:35,300 --> 00:12:39,300 lake of fire that burns with fire and brimstone everybody 254 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:44,600 ever experienced brimstone. I did when I was in, when I was 255 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:49,900 in school, we had a chemistry class and we had a big chemistry 256 00:12:49,900 --> 00:12:56,500 lab and sulfuric acid is. What was is essentially what 257 00:12:56,500 --> 00:12:58,700 Brimstone is? That's the by Brimstone is the 258 00:12:58,700 --> 00:13:02,200 Bible word. Sulfuric acid is the common 259 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:06,700 chemical term today, but we had this big hood that you could 260 00:13:06,700 --> 00:13:08,900 work with some of these chemicals and watch how they 261 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:10,400 interact with each other and everything else. 262 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:13,700 But they it was a it was It was a big glass case and you would 263 00:13:13,700 --> 00:13:16,900 stick your hands into it through these glove things. 264 00:13:16,900 --> 00:13:20,600 So that way, you know, the the smell or the anything couldn't 265 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:24,300 escape into the room and it had a big suction thing on it, 266 00:13:24,300 --> 00:13:27,200 that's sucked it right outside will somehow when we were doing 267 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:29,600 this experiment with some of the sulfuric acid, some of it 268 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,600 escaped into the room and I'm telling you, there were some 269 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:36,300 people that were standing closer than I was and, and they really 270 00:13:36,300 --> 00:13:39,700 got it, but it literally is like breathing in pins and needles. 271 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:42,000 It feels like you're trying to swallow a buck. 272 00:13:42,100 --> 00:13:43,700 Set of needles. That's what it that's when it 273 00:13:43,700 --> 00:13:48,200 feels like and can you imagine being in a place where there is 274 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:52,700 a lake of fire that burns with fire and brimstone? 275 00:13:54,100 --> 00:13:55,900 Hell is a horrible horrible place. 276 00:13:55,900 --> 00:13:59,600 And what I'm telling you this morning is that you need to 277 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:06,100 imagine your loved one in hell. Imagine them in that place. 278 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:08,800 Somebody that you're that, you're related to somebody that 279 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:12,500 you work with somebody that you claim to be a friend to 280 00:14:13,500 --> 00:14:15,300 somebody. That is even an acquaintance. 281 00:14:15,300 --> 00:14:19,600 Imagine imagine even your worst enemy in a place like that. 282 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:23,000 I couldn't imagine. You know, sometimes you hear 283 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,100 about such a gruesome murder or something like that that takes 284 00:14:26,100 --> 00:14:29,100 place and you wonder, how could somebody do that to another 285 00:14:29,100 --> 00:14:31,600 human being? How can you treat somebody that 286 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,600 way? But now I imagine that person or 287 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,100 any person somebody that you know in that Lake of Fire. 288 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:41,800 Looking into the fire. I was looking in the fire in my 289 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:45,300 backyard. Not all that long ago and and 290 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:47,400 and I started to think, you know, some people are going to 291 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:49,800 go to a place just like that and even worse. 292 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:53,000 This just a little fire in my backyard but some people are 293 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,900 going to spend an eternity in that place. 294 00:14:56,100 --> 00:14:59,200 There are no exit signs. There are no fire escapes and 295 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:03,900 held there is no way out. And if they go there because you 296 00:15:03,900 --> 00:15:06,700 failed to tell them that, that's where they're going to spend an 297 00:15:06,700 --> 00:15:09,300 eternity, they will be there forever. 298 00:15:10,300 --> 00:15:13,200 The rich man and Lazarus, we have the example of them. 299 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,600 And, and he looked up and he saw Lazarus and Abraham's bosom. 300 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:19,500 And he said, if you could just dip the tip of your finger in 301 00:15:19,500 --> 00:15:22,700 water, and give me just one drop on my tongue. 302 00:15:22,700 --> 00:15:25,400 I'd be so grateful. He didn't ask for a glass of 303 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:27,200 water. He didn't ask for a stream 304 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:28,900 flowing into hell or anything like that. 305 00:15:28,900 --> 00:15:32,800 He wanted one drop of water. That's a horrible that place is 306 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:35,300 William Booth. He was the founder of the 307 00:15:35,300 --> 00:15:36,900 Salvation Army. He said, if we could put a 308 00:15:36,908 --> 00:15:39,600 Christian in hell for 24 hours, it would make a flaming 309 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,800 evangelists out of everyone. I know it's kind of a little bit 310 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:46,500 of a play on words, but if we could see how bad he'll really 311 00:15:46,500 --> 00:15:50,200 is, we would tell everyone. We know you don't want to go 312 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:53,000 there, you don't want to spend an eternity in that place. 313 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:59,900 Imagine your neighbor in hell. Imagine your coworker inhale. 314 00:16:01,700 --> 00:16:04,600 Imagine your brother or your sister. 315 00:16:05,900 --> 00:16:11,400 Or your father or your mother, or your grandkids, imagine them 316 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:15,100 in that place. They'll never Escape. 317 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:18,700 No amount of embarrassment or shame should ever keep us from 318 00:16:18,700 --> 00:16:20,500 telling others about Jesus Christ. 319 00:16:22,100 --> 00:16:26,000 I've told you this story before about Edward Kimball he was just 320 00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:30,000 a layman in the church but he taught a Sunday school class and 321 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,700 he got a burden for the boys that he taught in that class 322 00:16:33,100 --> 00:16:37,100 there were teenagers young men Edward. 323 00:16:37,100 --> 00:16:40,100 Kimball decided that this young man that had been attending his 324 00:16:40,100 --> 00:16:42,700 Sunday school class needed to know Jesus Christ as his Savior 325 00:16:43,300 --> 00:16:45,500 and he didn't feel like he was a great speaker, he didn't feel 326 00:16:45,500 --> 00:16:48,200 like he was even great at giving out the gospel, but he walked 327 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,300 over to the place where this young man worked and it was a 328 00:16:50,308 --> 00:16:52,700 little shoe store. He walked into the back where 329 00:16:52,700 --> 00:16:56,400 this this young man was fixing shoes and he started to talk to 330 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:58,300 him about his need for Jesus Christ. 331 00:16:59,300 --> 00:17:01,900 Every Kimball walked out of that shoe store that day, feeling 332 00:17:01,900 --> 00:17:04,500 like he had done a horrible job at sharing the gospel. 333 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:07,000 Feeling like he had just messed the whole thing up. 334 00:17:07,700 --> 00:17:12,800 But that day that day, d.l. Moody accepted Jesus Christ as 335 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:16,400 his savior. And deal Moody, obviously, you 336 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,400 know, went on to shake continents, America and England. 337 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:22,200 He shook continents for the cause of Jesus Christ, and 338 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:25,400 countless people accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, but it 339 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:31,500 doesn't stop there deal Moody. LED FB Meyer, the Jesus Christ, 340 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:33,000 maybe you don't recognize that name. 341 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,500 But if B Meyer was a well-known name back in that day and FB 342 00:17:36,500 --> 00:17:40,500 Meyer LED J Wilbur Chapman to Jesus Christ and J Wilbur, 343 00:17:40,500 --> 00:17:44,600 Chapman LED Billy Sunday to Jesus Christ and Billy Sunday. 344 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:48,100 Obviously quit. Baseball went into the ministry. 345 00:17:48,300 --> 00:17:53,200 Was a was a one of the early fundamentalists but Billy Sunday 346 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:54,700 influence. Mordecai ham. 347 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:59,200 Who preached the message. In which Billy Sunday. 348 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:02,400 I mean Billy Graham. Sorry accepted Jesus Christ as 349 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:04,700 his savior. Billy Graham didn't stay 350 00:18:04,700 --> 00:18:06,700 faithful the way that I wish you would have but Billy Graham. 351 00:18:06,700 --> 00:18:09,100 Preach the gospel for a lot of years and many, many people got 352 00:18:09,100 --> 00:18:12,700 saved, including my own father-in-law who went to a 353 00:18:12,708 --> 00:18:17,300 Billy Graham film and accepted Jesus Christ, as his savior. 354 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:20,000 Of course, he influenced my wife. 355 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,400 She got saved. And now my God, my kids. 356 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:26,700 His grandkids are sitting in church as Christians today. 357 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,700 All because of a Sunday school teacher who felt like he botched 358 00:18:30,700 --> 00:18:34,200 the job. Imagine how many millions of 359 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:38,800 people millions of, people have come to know Jesus Christ as 360 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:40,900 their savior, because one man got a burden. 361 00:18:42,100 --> 00:18:43,800 For the kids in his Sunday school class. 362 00:18:45,300 --> 00:18:47,900 He got a burden to see them. Stay out of hell. 363 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,700 It's not our job to win them. It's our job to tell them. 364 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:55,500 And then let the Holy Spirit. Do the work in their hearts. 365 00:18:55,500 --> 00:18:57,200 I can't make somebody gets saved. 366 00:18:57,500 --> 00:18:59,500 That's one of the amazing things about Christianity. 367 00:18:59,500 --> 00:19:03,100 Christianity could never be an official religion. 368 00:19:04,100 --> 00:19:05,700 Because how do you make somebody accept? 369 00:19:05,700 --> 00:19:07,500 Jesus Christ, it's a heart decision. 370 00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:09,400 It's something that they have to do for themselves. 371 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:13,400 You can force somebody to conform to a religion and they 372 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,500 can say, all they want you that. Yeah, I'm a, I'm a Catholic, or 373 00:19:16,500 --> 00:19:19,300 I'm a, I'm a Methodist or I'm a presbyterian or whatever because 374 00:19:19,300 --> 00:19:21,700 they're conforming to the rules of that religion. 375 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:26,200 But you can never Force somebody to become a Christian because a 376 00:19:26,208 --> 00:19:28,700 Christian is a decision that you make in your own heart. 377 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:31,600 It's a decision to accept Jesus Christ. 378 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:35,800 As your own personal savior, I can't make somebody get saved. 379 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:39,300 But I can tell him and I can tell him and I can warn them. 380 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:41,600 And I can share the gospel with them, and I can pray that the 381 00:19:41,608 --> 00:19:43,500 Holy Spirit would do that work on their heart. 382 00:19:43,700 --> 00:19:46,000 If you know, Jesus Christ as your savior, then you're assured 383 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,300 of your home in heaven and most people are fine with that. 384 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:53,200 Well, I've got my own fire insurance, so I'm good and maybe 385 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,500 my wife and, you know, maybe my kids that their, we're good. 386 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:59,000 The rest of everybody else that's on them, whether they 387 00:19:59,100 --> 00:20:01,200 Accept Jesus Christ as their savior or not. 388 00:20:01,700 --> 00:20:04,600 Don't you want everyone to know what? 389 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,200 You know about Jesus Christ. Don't you want everyone to know 390 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:09,300 how they can escape that horrible place? 391 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:11,600 Don't you want everyone to know how they can spend an eternity 392 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,300 in heaven? Don't you have any desire for 393 00:20:14,300 --> 00:20:16,700 them to be saved the same way that you are? 394 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,400 Well if you really do know, Jesus Christ as your savior and 395 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,600 you know, the peace that comes when, you know him and you know 396 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,900 the comfort that comes and, you know, the the the satisfaction 397 00:20:26,900 --> 00:20:29,100 that you can lay your head down on your pillow at night. 398 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,500 Night and I don't have to worry about tomorrow because if I die 399 00:20:32,500 --> 00:20:34,700 today, I know exactly where I'm going. 400 00:20:34,700 --> 00:20:37,900 My first, my last breath on this Earth is going to be my first 401 00:20:37,900 --> 00:20:40,600 breath in heaven and I'm fine with that. 402 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,800 That's such a peace in that but don't you want that for 403 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:48,200 everyone? Can you imagine the shame and 404 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,400 the sorrow that you're going to feel when you see them as they 405 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:55,400 stand in judgement before God? And he has to say depart from 406 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,900 me, ye cursed into Everlasting, Flames prepared for the devil 407 00:20:58,900 --> 00:21:03,200 and his angels. and you're standing there and you watch 408 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:08,100 them and they look over in your direction and they say you knew 409 00:21:09,100 --> 00:21:12,500 Why didn't you tell me I want to listen? 410 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:14,600 What were you ashamed of what are you embarrassed? 411 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:18,400 So we were friends, we were family. 412 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,200 Why didn't you tell me? I didn't know that this was 413 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:26,600 going to be my end. Imagine the look on the face of 414 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:30,000 that one that you love and care about when they see you in 415 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,200 heaven. They scream about. 416 00:21:34,100 --> 00:21:38,100 The fact that you knew, and you didn't tell him all the pastor, 417 00:21:38,100 --> 00:21:41,900 there are no tears in heaven. Revelation 21 verse 4 says, and 418 00:21:41,900 --> 00:21:44,200 God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. 419 00:21:46,100 --> 00:21:47,500 I believe there will be Tears in Heaven. 420 00:21:47,500 --> 00:21:51,000 Before that point is we hang our heads in shame for the sins. 421 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,100 We have committed and for those that we did, not share the 422 00:21:53,108 --> 00:21:57,500 gospel with Now, we're going to enjoy heaven and our tears will 423 00:21:57,500 --> 00:21:59,300 be wiped away in. The Bible says, there's a great 424 00:21:59,300 --> 00:22:01,900 golf that's fixed between those that are in heaven and those are 425 00:22:01,900 --> 00:22:04,800 in hell and I don't think we're going to see them forever and 426 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,700 ever and ever. But I think they'll be able to 427 00:22:07,708 --> 00:22:10,700 see us. You think about the fact that 428 00:22:10,700 --> 00:22:14,000 the rich man in Hell, lifted up his eyes, and he saw Lazarus 429 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,500 there, and he knew instantly that he had made the wrong 430 00:22:17,500 --> 00:22:21,500 decision. Lazarus was there in heaven, he 431 00:22:21,500 --> 00:22:24,600 was spending an eternity in hell and he know that that rich Manet 432 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:26,600 and and that rich man, that's not in this. 433 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:30,400 Not a parable that Jesus gave us a story that Jesus told that 434 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,400 rich man is still burning in hell today. 435 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:36,800 He didn't go there for a short time and get his sins burned 436 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:38,700 off. He didn't get he didn't go there 437 00:22:38,700 --> 00:22:41,700 a short time and have a little bit of purgatory where he made 438 00:22:41,700 --> 00:22:44,600 pennants and made up for a few of the bad things that he did in 439 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:48,700 his life that rich man is still there today. 440 00:22:49,700 --> 00:22:53,100 And that's where your loved ones will be a million years from 441 00:22:53,100 --> 00:22:57,400 now. If you don't tell them, Well, if 442 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,700 we could get a picture and may, I say that there's no better 443 00:23:00,700 --> 00:23:03,100 time to share the gospel with someone in someone and invite 444 00:23:03,100 --> 00:23:06,100 them to church. Then at Easter people are often 445 00:23:06,100 --> 00:23:09,300 a lot more receptive around the Easter, take the time to share 446 00:23:09,300 --> 00:23:12,700 the gospel. Take the time to invite them to 447 00:23:12,700 --> 00:23:15,300 church. Take the time to think for just 448 00:23:15,300 --> 00:23:19,000 one moment about that person burning in the Lake of Fire and 449 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,700 then let that motivate you to do whatever you can to share the 450 00:23:21,700 --> 00:23:23,700 gospel with them. So they don't have to spend an 451 00:23:23,700 --> 00:23:30,100 eternity there. turnover, if you want to Acts chapter 1, We must 452 00:23:30,100 --> 00:23:32,900 get a picture of how bad he'll really is, but also, we need to 453 00:23:32,900 --> 00:23:34,700 realize that we can make a difference. 454 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:39,000 We can make a difference. There are some Souls that we can 455 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:42,600 never reach because of where we are and where they are sitting 456 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,200 over there in India, trying to reach souls for Christ, I don't 457 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:46,800 know the language, I don't know the Customs. 458 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:51,300 I don't know the people and I'm going there, but it's a billion 459 00:23:51,300 --> 00:23:54,200 people in India. I'll never be able to reach 460 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:57,400 those people. The Bible says in Acts 1:8 but 461 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:58,900 you shall receive power after that. 462 00:23:58,900 --> 00:24:02,300 The Holy Ghost is come upon you and you shall be Witnesses unto 463 00:24:02,300 --> 00:24:06,600 me, both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto 464 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,800 the uttermost part of the earth, We Can Make a Difference by 465 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,800 supporting and praying for those who are going to those places 466 00:24:12,700 --> 00:24:16,600 but never forget. That you cannot buy. 467 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:22,300 Soul winning. Your responsibility is not over 468 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:27,400 because you sent some money to somebody who was going somewhere 469 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,800 across the ocean or across the country, to share the message of 470 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:32,400 the Gospel. No amount of money. 471 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,500 We give no amount of missionaries are Church 472 00:24:34,500 --> 00:24:36,100 Planters. We send can make up for you. 473 00:24:36,100 --> 00:24:39,100 Going to the people that, you know, and love because those are 474 00:24:39,100 --> 00:24:41,800 people that very likely. You are the only one who will 475 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:43,400 ever have an opportunity to reach them. 476 00:24:44,500 --> 00:24:48,400 That is your mission field. Your neighborhood is your 477 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,400 mission field. Sure. 478 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,500 There's a possibility that somebody that lives in your 479 00:24:52,500 --> 00:24:56,100 neighborhood is is Works somewhere where there's happens 480 00:24:56,100 --> 00:24:59,300 to be a Christian or may go to church or something like that. 481 00:24:59,300 --> 00:25:02,000 There's always that possibility. But there's also a very strong 482 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:06,100 possibility that you are the only true Christian, who knows 483 00:25:06,100 --> 00:25:10,900 the gospel, and who has the gospel that they know And you 484 00:25:10,900 --> 00:25:14,000 very well might be the only one who can ever share the message 485 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,500 of the Gospel with them. Won't you? 486 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:23,000 Won't you do it? An old Deacon was leading in 487 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,600 prayer and use using one of his stereo typical phrases and he 488 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:30,800 said, oh Lord touch the unsaved with thy finger. 489 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,300 He had a kind of the same way that he said it, he used that 490 00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:36,900 phrase a lot and just gone to the way that he toned his voice 491 00:25:36,900 --> 00:25:41,300 and everything else but then he stopped And a few of the other 492 00:25:41,300 --> 00:25:43,800 people, you know, after a few seconds, they started looking up 493 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:45,500 and they said something wrong with this guy. 494 00:25:45,500 --> 00:25:47,200 He just stopped in the middle of his prayer. 495 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,100 So one of them walked up to where he was standing, he was an 496 00:25:50,100 --> 00:25:53,300 older man and one of them walked up to where he was standing and 497 00:25:53,300 --> 00:25:55,700 asked him if he was okay. He said, are you sick? 498 00:25:55,700 --> 00:25:59,400 And he said, no, no, but something seemed to say to me, 499 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:04,500 thou art the finger Oh, Lord, touched him with my finger in 500 00:26:04,500 --> 00:26:07,300 the Lord said your the finger. You go touch him. 501 00:26:07,900 --> 00:26:09,900 How can we reach a world will never touch? 502 00:26:09,900 --> 00:26:14,100 Isn't that a song that we sang? But a thought, how can we reach 503 00:26:14,100 --> 00:26:16,000 a world that we never touched Every Soul? 504 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,800 That is saved. Is one more that does not have 505 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:21,600 to spend an eternity in hell, I think I've told you this story 506 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:25,500 before as well, but an old man was walking along the beach one 507 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:27,900 morning and he noticed that young man was picking up 508 00:26:27,900 --> 00:26:29,900 starfish and throwing them back into the ocean. 509 00:26:31,100 --> 00:26:33,900 And as he walked along the beach, he watched this young man 510 00:26:33,900 --> 00:26:37,700 for a few minutes and and the boy explained that he was trying 511 00:26:37,700 --> 00:26:42,000 to to save those stranded starfish and they because they 512 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,200 would die if they were left on the beach in the morning sun. 513 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,400 And and this boy that lived down there, he knew that to be a 514 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,700 fact. And so, but this man, he just he 515 00:26:50,700 --> 00:26:52,400 had watched his boy for a little while. 516 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,800 And he saw how many starfish were there on the beach and he 517 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:59,500 saw how far the beach extended down the down the coastline. 518 00:27:00,300 --> 00:27:02,700 And he told that little boy said, but the beach the beach 519 00:27:02,700 --> 00:27:05,900 extends for miles. But what difference is it going 520 00:27:05,900 --> 00:27:08,100 to make? There are so many starfish and 521 00:27:08,100 --> 00:27:11,800 nothing you can do is going to make a dent in that. 522 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,200 And that little boy, without really even hesitating picked up 523 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,400 another starfish, and threw it back into the ocean. 524 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,100 He said, it made a difference to that one. 525 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,900 You look at the world. There's eight billion people in 526 00:27:23,908 --> 00:27:26,500 the world today and we think, you know, we lead one soul to 527 00:27:26,500 --> 00:27:29,000 Jesus Christ. It's not even making a dent, we 528 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,000 lead a thousand. Souls are a hundred thousand 529 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,100 souls to Jesus Christ, out of 8 billion. 530 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:37,200 We're not even making a dent. But then you lead one sort of 531 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:38,300 Christ. And you think it made a 532 00:27:38,300 --> 00:27:40,300 difference to that one? Aren't you? 533 00:27:40,300 --> 00:27:42,400 Glad that? You accepted. 534 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,400 Jesus Christ. That somebody told you how you 535 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:49,300 could be saved made a difference in your life. once you make that 536 00:27:49,300 --> 00:27:53,300 difference in somebody else's, Turn over second Corinthians 537 00:27:53,300 --> 00:27:55,600 chapter 11 and I want to share with you the last Point here 538 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,600 this morning. Did you get a picture of how 539 00:27:58,600 --> 00:27:59,800 bad? He'll really is. 540 00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:04,200 Need to realize that we can make a difference. 541 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,400 But the last thing I want you to see is this you have to realize 542 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:13,000 that it will be worth it all when we see Jesus, I need to 543 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:14,700 tell you that it's not an easy job. 544 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,200 It was an easy job to share the message of the Gospel. 545 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,800 Everybody would do it. And I think probably to our 546 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,900 shame. There's probably a large handful 547 00:28:24,900 --> 00:28:27,000 of people in this room this morning that I've never shared 548 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:31,400 the gospel with somebody. It's not easy and those who do 549 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:36,300 it know that it's not easy. I can't I've shared the gospel 550 00:28:36,300 --> 00:28:42,200 with, with hundreds or probably even thousands of people and as 551 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:47,600 much as I know what I'm saying. And I understand the Bible and I 552 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,700 am concerned about their souls. It's not easy to tell somebody. 553 00:28:51,700 --> 00:28:54,300 Hey, by the way, you're on your way to hell because of your sin. 554 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,400 It's just not an easy thing to do. 555 00:28:56,500 --> 00:28:58,400 You don't want to offend somebody you don't want to hurt 556 00:28:58,400 --> 00:28:59,300 their feelings. Things. 557 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,700 But the same way that a doctor has to set a bone and it, and 558 00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:06,300 you have to go through a little pain to for that to start 559 00:29:06,300 --> 00:29:08,500 healing. That's the same way honestly, in 560 00:29:08,500 --> 00:29:11,300 a lot of ways that the gospel is, they have to have that 561 00:29:11,300 --> 00:29:13,400 painful reality. Hey, you're going to spend an 562 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,900 eternity in hell, if you don't accept Jesus Christ, as your 563 00:29:15,900 --> 00:29:19,800 savior, Your sins are going to go Unforgiven though. 564 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,700 They've already been forgiven. There's no need for you to die 565 00:29:22,700 --> 00:29:25,600 and spend an eternity in hell. And as I've said, many times 566 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,600 before those who died in spending eternity in Hell, die 567 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,300 and go to hell with their sins. Paid for Jesus. 568 00:29:31,300 --> 00:29:32,700 Christ has already done the work. 569 00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:36,600 Nothing else has to be done other than for us to tell them 570 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,200 that they need. Jesus Christ. 571 00:29:39,100 --> 00:29:41,600 But I can promise you this no amount of embarrassment. 572 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,400 No amount of Shame, no amount of persecution. 573 00:29:45,700 --> 00:29:50,700 Can override the feeling of joy that we're going to feel when we 574 00:29:50,700 --> 00:29:54,500 stand before Christ. And we see those that we've won 575 00:29:54,500 --> 00:30:00,800 to him standing around with us. What a, what a what a thought. 576 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,200 But I want you to consider for just a minute, as we close here, 577 00:30:06,300 --> 00:30:10,200 the Apostle Paul, you're going to be rejected, you're going to 578 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,100 face some persecution, you're going to, you're going to be 579 00:30:13,100 --> 00:30:14,700 ridiculed. And at the moment it may not 580 00:30:14,700 --> 00:30:17,800 feel like it's worth it. But look, what happened to Paul 581 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,300 here in second Corinthians chapter 11 and verse number 21. 582 00:30:21,900 --> 00:30:24,000 I speak as concerning our approach is that we have been 583 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,500 weak, howbeit wheresoever. Any is bold I speak foolishly. 584 00:30:27,700 --> 00:30:29,900 I'm bold also. Are they Hebrews? 585 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,200 So am I. Are they Israelites? 586 00:30:32,300 --> 00:30:34,500 So am I are they the Seed of Abraham? 587 00:30:34,500 --> 00:30:36,600 So am I, are they Ministers of Christ? 588 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:40,000 I speak of I speak as a fool. I'm more in. 589 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,200 Labor is more. Abundant in Stripes above 590 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:47,100 measure in prisons. More frequent, in deaths, soft 591 00:30:47,100 --> 00:30:50,900 of the Jews five times received. I forty Stripes, save one 592 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:55,200 Thrice, I beaten with rods once was I stoned Thrice, I suffered 593 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,300 shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep in 594 00:30:58,300 --> 00:31:01,200 journeyings often. In Perils of waters in Perils of 595 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,100 robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the 596 00:31:04,100 --> 00:31:06,900 Heathen, in perils in the city, in perils, in the wilderness in 597 00:31:06,900 --> 00:31:10,100 perils in the sea in perils among false brethren in a 598 00:31:10,108 --> 00:31:14,200 weariness and painfulness in watchings often in hunger and 599 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,600 thirst in fastings, often in cold and nakedness. 600 00:31:17,700 --> 00:31:20,400 Besides those things that are without that which cometh upon 601 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:21,600 me daily, the care of all the churches. 602 00:31:21,700 --> 00:31:24,500 Churches. That doesn't sound very fun. 603 00:31:25,700 --> 00:31:27,800 I don't know, if any of us can say that we've been to really 604 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,700 any of those things, let alone all of them. 605 00:31:29,700 --> 00:31:33,100 The way that ball was right now and as the think of Paul, we're 606 00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:36,100 being honest in that moment, I'm not sure that he would say that 607 00:31:36,100 --> 00:31:39,100 it was worth it. Then Paul leads one. 608 00:31:39,100 --> 00:31:43,100 Soul to Jesus Christ. After he's been whipped and 609 00:31:43,100 --> 00:31:45,000 beaten and said in the middle of a prison. 610 00:31:46,100 --> 00:31:49,700 The one's Soul comes to know Jesus Christ and he goes back 611 00:31:49,700 --> 00:31:51,800 and he tells his family and that whole family comes to know. 612 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,200 Jesus Christ I'm sure then. Look back and Paul says it's 613 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,700 worth it all let's look what Paul says about that. 614 00:31:57,700 --> 00:32:03,100 Go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 12 in the next page over He says 615 00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:07,800 and I'm verse 15 and I will very gladly spend and be spent for 616 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,800 you though. The more abundantly I love you. 617 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:23,800 The less I beloved children, Philippians chapter 3, I think 618 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:28,300 it was Ronald Reagan, who's credited with saying, Something 619 00:32:28,300 --> 00:32:32,600 along the lines of the fact that there's no amount of, there's no 620 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,000 telling how much can be done if nobody cares who gets the 621 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,900 credit. And I think that's exactly what 622 00:32:37,900 --> 00:32:41,300 Paul's mindset is here. He says in Philippians chapter 623 00:32:41,300 --> 00:32:44,700 3, and verse number 7, but what things were gain to me those, I 624 00:32:44,700 --> 00:32:48,200 counted loss for Christ, ye doubtless and I count all 625 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,500 things. But loss for the Excellency of 626 00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:53,400 the knowledge of Christ, Jesus, my Lord, for whom I have 627 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,800 suffered the loss of all things and do count them. 628 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,500 But dung that I may win Christ and be found in him not having 629 00:32:59,500 --> 00:33:01,500 mine own righteousness, which is of the law. 630 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,400 But that which is through the Faith of Christ, the 631 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:07,200 righteousness, which is of god, by faith that I made, I know him 632 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,800 and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship 633 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:14,400 of his sufferings being made, conformable unto his death, Paul 634 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,300 was saying, it doesn't matter what I have to go through all of 635 00:33:17,300 --> 00:33:21,500 those things, even things that I consider to be gained their loss 636 00:33:21,700 --> 00:33:24,500 for the cause of Christ. I'll gladly go through all those 637 00:33:24,500 --> 00:33:26,100 things. If I can have Christ and if I 638 00:33:26,108 --> 00:33:30,200 can have his power and if I can share him with the world, that's 639 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,000 what Paul's mindset. Wasn't that ought to be our 640 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:33,800 mindset as well? No, my friends. 641 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,200 It'll be worth it all. When we see Jesus. 642 00:33:36,700 --> 00:33:41,600 Life's trials will seem so small when we see Christ, one glimpse 643 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,300 of his dear face, all Sorrows, Willie Race. 644 00:33:44,700 --> 00:33:48,400 So bravely run the race till we see Christ, Luke chapter 15 and 645 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,900 verse 10 says, likewise I say unto you, there is joy in the 646 00:33:50,900 --> 00:33:53,800 presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth 647 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,900 Can you imagine the joy around the throne? 648 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,800 when one sinner repents can you imagine the joy around the 649 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:05,200 throne when that Philippian Jailer got down on his knees and 650 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:09,800 accepted, Jesus Christ, as his savior, the angels in heaven 651 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,600 Rejoice over one soul that comes to know Jesus Christ as their 652 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:17,199 Savior and so can wait. We may never see the great 653 00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:18,800 numbers. Come to know the Lord as their 654 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,100 savior. We have to keep working. 655 00:34:21,100 --> 00:34:23,800 We have to keep praying, we have to keep going and keep telling 656 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:27,600 the good news of the Gospel. They haven't seen the great 657 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,400 numbers that. I think we're hoping for when we 658 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:34,900 first started, I thought that you pass out, 25,000 John and 659 00:34:34,900 --> 00:34:37,300 Romans and the people are just going to flood here and, you 660 00:34:37,300 --> 00:34:41,600 know, get saved in droves and and, you know, it doesn't happen 661 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,600 that way, didn't happen that way. 662 00:34:43,699 --> 00:34:47,800 Now, I'm not saying that I couldn't God could do it. but, 663 00:34:49,100 --> 00:34:51,900 God's moved and God is worked in Gods. 664 00:34:53,300 --> 00:34:55,199 Helped us to lead souls to Christ. 665 00:34:55,500 --> 00:34:58,400 And God God has put us in a position to be able to grow into 666 00:34:58,400 --> 00:34:59,600 what he's playing for this church. 667 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,400 The Bible says in Luke chapter 19, and verse number 10, for the 668 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,300 son of man has come to seek and to save that, which was lost. 669 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:11,100 That's why Jesus came Adrian Rogers told a story of a 670 00:35:11,100 --> 00:35:13,600 brilliant but a tragic event. But a father went to the 671 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:17,100 hospital to pick up his newborn baby and his wife and he left 672 00:35:17,100 --> 00:35:21,000 the car running with a three-year-old in the back seat. 673 00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:24,000 And ran in there to get the baby and his wife. 674 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,400 And when he came out, the car was gone, turned out. 675 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,400 That somebody had jumped in and stolen the car. 676 00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:30,800 Obviously, there's a huge Manhunt. 677 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:32,800 They need to find this car. But even more importantly, they 678 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:33,900 need to find little three-year-old. 679 00:35:33,900 --> 00:35:35,300 That was in the back seat of that car. 680 00:35:36,300 --> 00:35:40,000 Not too long after they found the car abandoned and no child 681 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,800 in the back seat. And so a whole group of people 682 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,100 came out there and started to search and hunt for this little 683 00:35:45,100 --> 00:35:47,800 boy. And, and one man in particular, 684 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,300 that was out there, helping them search thought, you know what, 685 00:35:51,300 --> 00:35:54,300 maybe, maybe this guy realized that there was a kid in the back 686 00:35:54,300 --> 00:35:56,100 seat and just abandon the car and jumped out. 687 00:35:56,100 --> 00:35:58,300 In this kid, got out because he didn't know where he was at or 688 00:35:58,300 --> 00:36:00,600 what to do. So he started looking around in 689 00:36:00,607 --> 00:36:04,400 that area and he was shining his flashlight and his house, his 690 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,500 flashlight. Shined on to an old And in 691 00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:10,000 house, it's all a bunch of newspapers up there on the porch 692 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,400 and a little porch swing. And then he saw some movement. 693 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,400 And next thing, you know, the little boy was sitting there on 694 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,100 that swing sliding back and forth. 695 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,700 Little boy's name was Billy and he started shouting Billy Billy. 696 00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:24,000 And Billy said, is that you Daddy, he jumped off of that 697 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,300 chair. And then the man said, no, no 698 00:36:26,300 --> 00:36:28,500 Billy, I'm not your daddy, but I'm here to take you to your 699 00:36:28,500 --> 00:36:31,900 daddy. And that's exactly what the job 700 00:36:31,900 --> 00:36:36,700 of the church is to rescue. The perishing to care for the 701 00:36:36,700 --> 00:36:39,700 dying to find them, to bring them to Jesus Christ. 702 00:36:39,700 --> 00:36:42,000 That's why Jesus Christ came to this world. 703 00:36:42,100 --> 00:36:44,800 He's come to seek and to save that which was lost and that 704 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:46,700 ought to be our main motivation as well. 705 00:36:46,900 --> 00:36:50,100 I'm not God, we're not Jesus Christ, but we are here on this 706 00:36:50,100 --> 00:36:53,500 Earth to take them to him and I want to bring as many people 707 00:36:53,500 --> 00:36:56,900 with me as I can imagine what it would be like on that day when 708 00:36:56,900 --> 00:37:00,800 we stand before, God, And all of those people that we were able 709 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,900 to influence for the cause of Jesus Christ and some that we 710 00:37:03,900 --> 00:37:06,200 didn't even know that we influence for the cause of Jesus 711 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:10,000 Christ because we shared the gospel with somebody who was it. 712 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,700 Somebody else happened to stand by there and hear it or we gave 713 00:37:12,700 --> 00:37:15,900 a track to somebody as we pass through a drive-through or a gas 714 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:19,300 station and they read that and they got saved and we may never 715 00:37:19,300 --> 00:37:21,300 know the amount of people that were going to influence. 716 00:37:21,300 --> 00:37:23,800 But I can tell you this, if you don't ever try to influence 717 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,700 people for the cause of Jesus Christ, nobody will ever get 718 00:37:26,700 --> 00:37:28,600 saved. And you're going to be said, 719 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,100 There you've got your ticket to Heaven. 720 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,500 You're on your way there, you've got your Mansion for all of 721 00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:37,600 eternity. But nobody's going to be there 722 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:43,200 with you. In fact, you're going to watch 723 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,500 as one by one. All the people that you did know 724 00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:50,900 and all the people that you did have an opportunity to influence 725 00:37:51,700 --> 00:37:53,600 and all the people that you did have a chance to share the 726 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:58,700 gospel with that, you never did. It condemned to spend an 727 00:37:58,700 --> 00:38:02,000 eternity in hell. You have to watch them walk over 728 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:06,300 that precipice. Be cast into the Lake of Fire. 729 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:12,600 Spend all of eternity there. I want you to look at one last 730 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,900 verse and we're done turn over to Acts chapter 26. 731 00:38:16,100 --> 00:38:22,000 Paul as he stood before Agrippa and testified of the Gospel 732 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:27,800 before this King Paul told about his salvation experience on the 733 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:32,900 road to Damascus. And in answer to Paul's question 734 00:38:32,900 --> 00:38:35,600 about who this was that was standing in front of him. 735 00:38:36,900 --> 00:38:40,300 Jesus Christ, the lord. And if you have a Bible that has 736 00:38:40,700 --> 00:38:43,500 words in red, you don't see very many words and read in the book 737 00:38:43,500 --> 00:38:44,900 of Acts. But you do right here because 738 00:38:44,900 --> 00:38:48,800 these are the words of Jesus Christ to Paul as he was on the 739 00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:54,500 road to Damascus. and Jesus said I am Jesus whom thou persecutest 740 00:38:54,500 --> 00:38:58,600 and then Jesus gave him a mission statement Acts chapter 741 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:03,200 26 and verse number 18, To open their eyes. 742 00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:08,500 And to turn them from Darkness to light and from the power of 743 00:39:08,500 --> 00:39:14,700 Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and 744 00:39:14,700 --> 00:39:17,000 inheritance among them, which are Sanctified by faith. 745 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,200 That's in me. Take that Satan. 746 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,000 And take that message to as many people as we can. 747 00:39:25,700 --> 00:39:30,600 Our job is to share with them, the gospel, so that they'll go 748 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,700 from Darkness to light. So they'll go from the power of 749 00:39:33,700 --> 00:39:37,000 Satan to the power of God that they can receive the same 750 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,800 forgiveness of sins that you've received and that they can have 751 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:44,100 the same inheritance among all the rest of those that are 752 00:39:44,100 --> 00:39:46,600 Sanctified by faith. That's in Jesus Christ. 753 00:39:47,100 --> 00:39:49,900 That's a mission statement. If I've ever seen one and take 754 00:39:49,900 --> 00:39:53,100 Heart Christian. Keep going for Jesus, Jesus 755 00:39:53,100 --> 00:39:56,500 Christ, even if only a few people of all the ones that you 756 00:39:56,500 --> 00:40:01,600 tell accept Jesus Christ as their savior, it's worth it. if 757 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:06,300 we're only just a few, And that may be all that ever comes to 758 00:40:06,308 --> 00:40:07,700 know Jesus Christ as their savior. 759 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:12,700 I can't help that. My job is to tell him they say, 760 00:40:12,700 --> 00:40:14,900 well, you know, nobody gets saved anymore. 761 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:19,000 Tell you this, you give the gospel out enough times, people 762 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,900 will get saved. You stay at it, you keep on 763 00:40:22,900 --> 00:40:24,600 them, you keep meeting with them. 764 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:26,900 You keep talking to them, you keep sharing the gospel with 765 00:40:26,900 --> 00:40:28,500 them. They will get saved. 766 00:40:29,300 --> 00:40:32,500 They will get saved. And if not, then at least we've 767 00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:38,300 done our job in warning them. listen, you're going to spend an 768 00:40:38,300 --> 00:40:40,700 eternity in hell, if you don't know, Jesus Christ as your 769 00:40:40,700 --> 00:40:48,400 savior, What a warning that is, how many people have you warned? 770 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:53,100 How many people have you told? You get a picture of them in 771 00:40:53,100 --> 00:40:56,500 hell and make a big difference in being effective as a 772 00:40:56,500 --> 00:40:58,000 cylinder. For Jesus Christ. 773 00:41:00,900 --> 00:41:04,100 You realize that you can make a difference and make a big 774 00:41:04,100 --> 00:41:06,500 difference and you've been effective being a soul winner 775 00:41:06,500 --> 00:41:09,900 for Jesus Christ. You may not be the next Charles 776 00:41:09,900 --> 00:41:12,100 Spurgeon, may not be the next d.l. 777 00:41:12,100 --> 00:41:15,100 Moody. But you can influence somebody. 778 00:41:16,300 --> 00:41:21,100 And I guarantee you that that one or two or ten out of a 779 00:41:21,100 --> 00:41:24,400 billion people that you influence for Jesus Christ that 780 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:31,800 gets saved will be glad you did. And you just got to realize that 781 00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:35,700 one of these days when we stand before quite Christ, you'll be 782 00:41:35,700 --> 00:41:38,900 so glad you did. He'll be so glad you shared the 783 00:41:38,900 --> 00:41:44,500 gospel with that person. You'll be so glad that you dealt 784 00:41:44,500 --> 00:41:47,000 with the embarrassment that that literally is the most 785 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:51,400 persecution. We have so embarrassed You know, 786 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,800 you know, you know how Petty that sounds in relation to 787 00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,700 everything that Paul went through to get the message of 788 00:41:55,700 --> 00:41:59,400 the Gospel out. Oh, it's so embarrassing to tell 789 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,500 somebody about Jesus? I'm so ashamed. 790 00:42:04,100 --> 00:42:10,300 It's nothing that we deal with to be able to share the gospel 791 00:42:10,300 --> 00:42:13,300 with somebody. It all comes down to this. 792 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:16,600 How much do you really love soles? 793 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:19,700 I love souls. I want to see people get to 794 00:42:19,700 --> 00:42:21,100 save. That's the job of the church. 795 00:42:21,100 --> 00:42:22,700 That's my job. As a Christian. 796 00:42:22,700 --> 00:42:25,100 I was how many times have you shared the gospel with somebody 797 00:42:25,100 --> 00:42:29,800 this week? Many times. 798 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:31,800 Have you shared the gospel with somebody this month? 799 00:42:34,100 --> 00:42:36,500 many times, if you share the gospel with somebody this year, 800 00:42:39,100 --> 00:42:41,700 You're being honest, that number is probably pretty small. 801 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:46,400 Let's add to it. Hey, if you share the gospel 802 00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:51,100 with one person last year, at tri-five this year, You share 803 00:42:51,100 --> 00:42:52,600 the gospel with one person this month. 804 00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,800 Try three this month. Share the gospel with somebody 805 00:42:55,800 --> 00:43:00,100 this week. Try to next week. but just make 806 00:43:00,100 --> 00:43:02,400 sure that we're spreading the message of the Gospel, that's 807 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,600 our job, it's our responsibility, it's our mission 808 00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:08,300 statement, that we've been given And I for one don't want to 809 00:43:08,300 --> 00:43:12,200 fail. And making sure we do everything 810 00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:16,600 we can to influence. Even just a few. 811 00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:20,000 Because one day, we're going to stand before God and will be 812 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,000 worth it all. Let's pray. 813 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,300 Father, we love you and we thank you for your goodness to us. 814 00:43:26,900 --> 00:43:31,400 I thank you so much for allowing me to hear the gospel. 815 00:43:32,900 --> 00:43:36,600 And allowing me to be saved. Forgiven me salvation. 816 00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:40,400 Thank you so much for that. Forgot. 817 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,500 I pray that if there is somebody in here that still doesn't know 818 00:43:43,500 --> 00:43:46,100 for sure that they're on their way to heaven, what a shame, it 819 00:43:46,100 --> 00:43:49,500 would be for them to hear the gospel so many times and not 820 00:43:49,500 --> 00:43:53,400 accept it. But God, what a shame it is. 821 00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,100 For those of us who do know that we're on our way to heaven, and 822 00:43:56,100 --> 00:43:58,400 have accepted the gospel, and not share it. 823 00:44:00,500 --> 00:44:02,800 And God, I pray that you put the burden on our hearts so 824 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:04,700 strongly. I pray that you would impress on 825 00:44:04,700 --> 00:44:09,800 our hearts people right now. That we know that we can witness 826 00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,300 too. And I pray that you'd help us 827 00:44:12,300 --> 00:44:14,600 not to fail in the responsibility that we have to 828 00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:18,900 them to warn them. And to share with them the 829 00:44:18,900 --> 00:44:22,300 greatest news they'll ever here in their life, they can be 830 00:44:22,300 --> 00:44:25,600 saved. And God I pray that you would 831 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,900 convict our hearts to be better Witnesses For You especially as 832 00:44:29,900 --> 00:44:32,200 we're moving into Eastern next week. 833 00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:34,000 God, I pray that you're not supposed to use that as an 834 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:39,400 opportunity to share the gospel. To invite people to your house. 835 00:44:40,500 --> 00:44:44,300 Ogawa may we be effective as a church and sharing the Gospel of 836 00:44:44,300 --> 00:44:47,100 Jesus Christ. Thank you for what you do for us 837 00:44:47,100 --> 00:44:48,800 in Jesus name. Amen.